BIB_ID
282712
Accession number
MA 3448.32
Creator
Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961.
Display Date
[1917 May 15?].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, special gift of the Gramercy Park Foundation (Mrs. Michael Tucker), 1980.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection that consists of 84 autograph letters, 3 typed letters, 7 postcards, and 3 telegrams. Most, but not all, are written by Vanessa Bell to John Maynard Keynes. Items in this collection are described in 97 individual records (MA 3448.1-97).
The letter is dated "Tuesday."
The letter is dated "Tuesday."
Summary
Telling him he cannot come the weekend he planned to visit because so many others will be visiting then, including "Saxon [Sydney-Turner] and Barbara [Hiles] in a tent"; inviting him for the following weekend; complaining that Barbara "seems to mean to spend the summer here in her tent": "I don't know how one's to prevent anyone who likes from pitching their tent at one's door except by being as unmistakeably hostile as the Woolves" [Leonard and Virginia Woolf].
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